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OK MG boys, now is the time to help a fellow LBC(TRIUMPH) owner.

About a year ago I was surfing and saw a website with a kit which would allow the starter to turn the motor over but not let it start until a predetermined oil pressure was made.
It was in a kit form.

Anybody remember such a kit?
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One of the advantages of a hard starting car is that there is always oil pressure by the time it finally fires.

Seriously, quite a few cars have a low oil pressure fuel pump shutoff Which you could use for this. I'll bet that your local car parts store has something. I used a General Automotive #23470, from a 1980 Dodge Omni For a fuel shutoff.

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wouldn't be too hard to cobble up, just put a tee in the block where the oil pressure line mounts and mount a pressure switch on the extra arm. run the wire to the coil across the contacts on the pressure switch and you're good to go. It would also have the added benefit (?) of shutting down your engine if the oil pressure dropped. This would require a setting below the hot idle oil pressure or you'd have trouble at every stop light
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That's brillian thinking! Something for GEM? I can think of at least one person who overtightened the hanging oil filter unit, which caused it to break, dropping the whole mess onto the road. He was quick at the key, I wouldn't even have noticed.
 
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